It seems odd to announce the signing of a person who is already champion. I think it is easy to see that TNA may be having issues. It would really suck if they go under now. They don’t provide much competition to WWE, but any is better than none.

Matt said it correctly, it is tiered. What made ECW so popular in its heyday wasn’t just it’s format and style, but it never tried to rival or takeover WWF/WWE/WCW , it just was an alternative…an extreme alternative. Even when TNA started, it was similar to ROH in that it is/was an alternative…it had a 6 sided ring, it was unique, but then they wanted to go head to head …that was the problem, they tried/try too hard. Hopefully it wont be too late to learn that mistake.